March 20, 1847

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Features

Cooper's Key-Seat Machine

Concentration of Sulphuric Acid

Departments

In Brief

Progress of Improvement

Departments

The Rising Generation

List of Patents

Awful Warning

The One Price Tavern

Anecdote with a Moral

World do for a Yankee

The True in Heart and the Noble One

Southern Cotton Factories

New Potatoes

Fall of an Aerolite

Plenty of Work for The Industrious

The Lena Iron Company

A Novel Salute

Nwards

The Alleghaneans

Gen. Taylor and the Presidency

An Interesting Book

Singular Phenomenon

Schools in Massaehusetts

To Correspondents

The Cardinal Spider

Earthquakes, Lightning Storms, Hurri. canes, &C

The Australian Nettle Tree

The Weather, &C

Astronomy

Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother

Instinct of Birds

The Submarine Lifter

Bancroft's Propeller

Calico Print Cutting

Wind Mills

Tapestry Carpeting

Walnuts

Improved Blind-fastenings

Wall Drying Apparatus

The Wave Principle in Ship Building

Night Signals

The Last of the Montezumas

Smoke Consuming Apparatus

Lake Superior

Trenton Iron Works

Alteration in the Post Office law

Plank Road

Anecdotes

Ship Building on the Ohio

The Way to sell Cheap

Cars Wanted

The Somnific Gas

To New Subscribers

The Scientific American

Gems from the Copper Region

The Leaning Tower of Pisa during the Earthquake

The Monkeys in Procession

The Alpine Horn

Singular Habits of Menagerie Beasts

Highland Cottage

Durability of Timber under Water

Set Rules

To Boot Wearers

Opinions of the Press

The New York Scientific American

Navigating against the Wind

The Wonders of Electro Magnetism

Musical Bells for Cows

To remove Dust or Motes from the Eye

Bilious Cholic

Otto of Roses

Manufacture of Steel Pens

Glass

Nitrate of Soda

The Ocean Turned into a Water Power

Living on the Water

Irrigating Machines in Egypt

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